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La querían a ella. La aguardaban en un recodo del sinuoso camino que debía conducirla hasta Escocia. Allí la esperaba su amiga, la católica reina María Estuardo. Fue repentino: unas sombras, salteadores a buen seguro, se dejaron caer de lo más alto de los árboles, neutralizaron su escolta y detuvieron los carromatos con sus pertenencias; un poco más allá en el sendero apareció la figura de un hombre formidable, cubierto con una capa, montado en un enorme garañón negro. Dorothea vio cómo se acercaba a ella y sintió su fuerza y su energía cuando intentó en vano resistirse. Esa noche, atada junto al fuego, apenas cubierta con una andrajosa manta, lo observó, y era como contemplar el sol en forma de hombre. Hasta ese momento Thea no había sido capaz de imaginar que la mera apariencia de un hombre podía deleitarla hasta hacerle daño.
Y aquel hombre atormentado, Robin St. John, lord Derry cuando frecuentaba el ambiente cortesano de Londres y Robin Savage cuando adquiría la personalidad de truhán, de forajido y de espía, había de ser, al menos en su primer encuentro, el causante de su desdicha. Él conocía perfectamente, porque lo había vivido en su propia carne, el sufrimiento de verse encerrado en una fría y oscura mazmorra, sin alimento ni agua, hasta que perdidas las fuerzas vitales, la razón huía y la locura se hacía, casi, realidad. Por eso sufría al ver a Thea, a Dorothea, en lo más recóndito y profundo de la ruinosa Torre del Cuervo.
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Luis Montane
reviewed Una dama valiente (Lady Valiant) on April 23, 2008
Una dama valiente (Lady Valiant)
Elizabethan stories always seem to include lots of spies, plots to help or undermine the queen and this one is no exception. It is a sequel to Lady Defiant (a sequel to one of my favourite Elizabethans, Lady Gallant) and as the previous book it doesn't come close to the first book.
Common to all 3 books is the love / hate relationship between the main characters. The heroes believe the heroines to be spies trying to harm Queen Elizabeth and they do their best to hurt, imprison and control them. Here I thought the hero worked on little evidence between deciding Thea was guilty. Not only that but in the beginning it seemed almost a game between them, with him accusing her of things she did not understood. I think the story has an uneven balance between some funny moments and some poignant ones and it would have been better served with choosing one or the other.
Robin catches Thea on the road to Scotland and due to her intriguing grandmother he believes that she carries messages to Mary Stuart, aiming at putting her on the throne instead of Elizabeth. He stops her and eventually imprisons her before realising that she is an innocent pawn. Unfortunately, like in so many other similar stories the hero never really grovels enough after what he did to the heroine and she is definitely too quick to forgive him. To forgive and to fall in love with him. Not only that but Thea ends up being the strong one. Robin is scarred by the treason of his dead wife and seems incapable of committing again. He is also estranged from his father because of the death of one of his brothers and Thea helps him deal with all that baggage.
In the end Thea really was a valiant lady but while this was an entertaining story it was not a memorable one.
Grade: 3.5/5
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